Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-23
ming at Bellefonte, whereiron can be made
nearly as cheap as in the South.

nearly as cheap as IN the South.
The demand for rolling mill machinery
was never greater than at present. One
Youngstown establishment has orders Tor
3OO-hOrse power to be delivered this year.
1t has been stated that Paterson turns
out 500, OO0, 600 worth of finished SILK
goods annually, and that Swiss manufac-
turers and wOrkmen are being driven out
Of the business in consequence.
The English blast furnace masters are
away behind the American. They are
studying American blast furnaces and mill
practice with view TO adopting such fea-
lures as will increase their output.
A new electrical compound called vul-
cabestus is made of rubber and asbestus,
and resists all temperatures, is acid and
water proof, and can take safely the high
est electrical motive force used in practical
work.
According to the commercial reports
from thirty cities, for every 800 worth Of
business done for the first nine months OF
last year sos worth of business has been
done during the first nine months Of this
year.
In Great Britain "a, O9S factories are reg
istered, aud SO, 800 workshops. The in
spectors of shops and factories last year
made ia, 274 visits to see that the Laws
were in force. There are fifty-six inspec-
tors in all.
English locomotives are disappearing,
and an American pattern IS taking their
place. The American design is superior
in all respects. The popularity OF the
American engine is that the bulk OF the
weight is over the drivers.
Iu the Allegheny mountain district ], $40
new coke ovens are being built. Wages
are 10 per cent below the COnnellsyille
rate. There are 5000 less cars in the
coke trade than there were year ago.
Shippers are in great need.
The hoe department of the axe works at
Beaver Falls, Pa, started up last week and
is running steadily. Most of the hoes
manufactured are for the southern trade,
and are very different in size and shape
from those used in this locality.
The strike of the workmen engaged on
the East Liberty Presbyterian church,
Pittsbnrg, ended on Friday evening by the
nOn-union workmen agreeing to enter the
unions. The union men look upon this
ouiet settlement o.. 8 due to the cOnciliatory
advice Of Special Agent O'Shea.
The American petroleum exporters are
regaining their former control over
British markets, which were partially in
yaded by Russian oil exporters. At least
., $50, 900 barrels of petroleum were con-
sumed in Great Britain last year. A well
has been bored in Egypt 1910 feet, and
has reached good supply of oil.
Several Of the piers for the Harlem
bridge are 1O7 feet above the water al
ready. Three million pounds of iron and
steel TO 90 into the bridge are on the
ground, and 81 900, 600 has been expended.
1t will be the best bridge in the country.
The granite facing costs S2S per yard. One
thousand men are engaged i'll its con-
struction and on the material Tor it,
The Ohio Trades Assembly has under
consideration petition to Congress re-
questing the repeal of the duty on soda,
for the reason that the Pennsylvania Salt
Co., of Natrona, Pa, firm principally
composed Of foreign capitalists, who man.
ufacture soda, an article largely protected
by protective tariff, and paying their en-
plOyes less wages than are paid for similar
work in free-trade England.
The Pittsburg COmmOacr: Union 2l1,
of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, did some
thing lust week worthy OF Trades Union
ism. On October the death of Peter
Trainer was announced, but as he was IL
regular in his dues he was not entitled to
the death benefit of 500. His family
needed the money badly, and rs it was
impossible to take it out Of the treasury,
the members started list and subscribed
the entire $500 before they adjourned.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters has 300
local unions, covering every State and Ter
ritOry in the United States and Dominion
of Canada; 274 use the English language,
% the German, = French, 2 Scandinavian,
Bohemian and Polish. The movement
for reduction of the hours of labor has en-
cOuntered far more opposition in some
cases than have the demands for increased
wages Notably in Toronto, ST. Paul,
Cincinnati and Chicago the employers made
very bitter fight against shorter hours of
labor Seven cities have established the
eight-hOur system rs cities are working
nine hours a day and 13l cities are work
ing eight OF nine hours day on Saturdays.
In the cities affected by these reductions
in the hours of labor a careful resume
shows that fully 100000 hours less work
per week have been gained to the union
and nOn-union men of those cities, and
this has provided employment for =, 963
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